MATHER, Increase.De successu Evangelii apud Indos Occidentales, in Novâ-Angliâ; epistola. Ad cl. virum D. Joannem Leusdenum, linguae sanctae in Ultrajectina Academia professorem, scripta, .Including: SPECHT, Herman, and others. De successu Evangelii apud Indos Orientales, epistolae aliae conscriptae[.] Tum â D. Hermanno Specht, V.D.M. in urbe Colombo, sitâ in insula Ceilon. Tum etiam, à D. Adriano de Mey, V.D.M. in Jaffanapatnam, sitâ in eadem insula, praefecto Collegii Malabarici; et à D. Francisco Valentino, V.D.M. in Amboina, ad eundem Johannem Leusden.Utrecht, Willem Broedelet, 1699. 8vo. Grained, gold-tooled red morocco (ca. 1875?) signed by the Bradstreet Bindery in New York (stamp on the verso of the first free endleaf), with 5 bands on the spine, go - Alden & Landis 699/146; Church 783; for the bindery: Du Bois, Historical essay on the art of bookbinding, 1883, p. 35. Third edition known to survive in the original Latin of a letter on the success of spreading the Gospel among the indigenous American Indians, written by Increase Mather, the second of three generations of famous Puritan ministers in Boston and rector of Harvard College, addressed to Johannes Leusden, Professor of Hebrew at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. The letter is dated from Boston, 12 July 1687. The present Utrecht edition adds letters to Leusden on the progress of spreading the Gospel among the populations in Ceylon and the East Indies, written by Herman Specht (1684; 1688), Adrianus de Mey (1690; 1692) and Franciscus Valentijn (1686). These additional letters appear here in the first edition of the original Latin known to survive.The work is bound by the Bradstreet Bindery in New York. John M. Bradstreet (1815-1863) established one of the first credit rating companies and they apparently came into bookbinding through their publishing activities, but when Henry and his siblings took over the firm "fine binding" was largely a European phenomena, William Matthews in New York being the only major American exponent. They carried out work for J.P. Morgan, the Grolier Club and other bibliophiles. In 1883, Du Bois praised their bindings higher than any others in America, noting their "solidity, strength and squareness of workmanship . Certainly none can put a varied coloured morocco coat on a book, and gild it with greater perfection in choice of ornament and splendor of gold, and with greater care, taste and success, .". He even hints that they might excel the French and English, then regarded as the best binders. Church's copy of the present edition was also bound by Bradstreet, but in green morocco.Slightly browned, but still in very good condition. The binding has been expertly and unobtrusively rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down, and the corners are scuffed, but the binding is otherwise very good.

GREENAWAY, Kate (illustrator).Kate Greenaway Almanacks, 1883-1897. 24mo., in landscape and portrait format, and small 8vo.; a fine collection of 14 individual Kate Greenaway almanacks, 1883-1891, 1893 and 1925; each volume presented in the original binding, either leather, pictorial wrappers or glazed pictorial boards, and each illustrated throughout with woodblock vignettes in colours, by Greenaway; 1883 in leather with gilded edges; with 3 examples of 1884 in different variant bindings (pictorial wrappers, cream wrappers gilt with original glassine, and lime green wrappers); 1885 in 2 variants (original white grained cloth gilt and pictorial boards with original printed dustwrapper); 1886 in white cloth to simulate morocco, 1887-1890 in pictorial boards, 1891 and 1893 in pictorial boards and printed dustwrappers, and 1925 in glazed boards, all presented in a cleverly fashioned, and early, olive green cloth-covered presentation box, with onlaid leather label lettered and decorated in gilt to lid; in lovely condition throughout with very small signs of use, 1883 with some rubbing to joints and edges, the dustwrappers with minimal wear and one small flap adhesion, and the de luxe 1884 edition with the neat leather Ex Libris label of Estelle Doheny to inner cover. First editions. A nearly comprehensive collection of these delightful annual almanacks which began in 1883, containing all but one of those issued during Greenaway's lifetime, without 1897. No almanack was issued in 1896. After the artist's death Routledge continued to reuse the illustrations in almanacks dated between 1924 and 1929.

[H. H. Hardesty]HARDESTY';S HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA, ILLUSTRATED. WITH SPECIAL HISTORY OF THE VIRGINIAS, MAPS AND HISTORIES OF GREENBRIER, POCAHONTAS AND MONROE COUNTIES, WEST VIRGINIA New York, Richmond: H. H. Hardesty & Co., Publishers, 1883. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. With much data and quite nice maps, the emphasis of this edition being on West Virginia. Many maps of the states, and a handsome map of Virginia and West Virginia. Along with drawings of the signers, many maps of Biblical lands, and the like. A rebacked copy, with a compatible new spine; some minor rippling to some pages, but no stains at all. near Very Good binding.

MIDDLE EAST - PACIFIC].Våra minnen.[Stockholm], (colophon: Stuttgart, printed at the Deutsche Verlagsanstalt), [1886]. 8vo. With a lithographed title-page, a portrait of Princes Eugen and Carl in Arab costume, and 15 plates (mostly collotype reproductions of photographic views) with captions printed on the tissue guards. Contemporary black half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine with title, textured cloth sides. - Forbes 3863; Kroepelien 1318; O'Reilly & Reitmann 1359b; WorldCat (6 copies). A privately printed work recording travels by the Swedish Princes Carl, Eugen, and Oscar. The greater part of the work details the Pacific voyage of the Vanadis (1883-1885), with contributions by the Princes themselves and by Fredrik Adelborg, Nils Gustaf Sundström, Bengt Axel, Eugen Ribbing and Carlo Landberg. Two chapters deal with Polynesia, including Hawaii. The volume further records travels in Tahiti, Egypt, the Middle East (Syria, Jordan, Jerusalem), India, and the Philippines. The plates include a view of Beirut and a Bedouin camp.With a signed presentation inscription by Prince Carl to "Syster Jenny", dated "sommaren 1890". Some browning and spotting, a few leaves with a faint marginal waterstain, spine damaged, corners bumped. Otherwise in very good condition.

John WisdenJohn Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1883 - 1883 Original Paperback Wisden, Facsimile Parts 1883. Hi, This lot is an Original 1883 Wisden Paperback with facsimile parts, The facsimile parts are the covers, the spine , the adverts and the last page of the Wisden before the adverts, other than that it is all Original. This is in Very Good condition, the facsimile parts are expertly made and the original content is clean and well presentable. Red speckles to the page block.

[Riley, James Whitcomb]THE OLD SWIMMIN'-HOLE" AND 'LEVEN MORE POEMS. By "Benj. F. Johnson, of Boone" [pseud] Indianapolis: George C. Hitt & Co., 1883. Small octavo. Original printed parchment-like wrappers, printed in red. Faintest dust soiling to the wrappers, minute fleck on lower wrapper, but a fine copy. Enclosed in a half morocco slipcase and chemise (spine a bit darkened). First edition of the author's first book, collecting a number of "Hoosier" dialect poems which had seen earlier publication under the pseudonym in THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. The first edition consisted of one thousand copies, with the cost of publication split between Riley and Hitt, and the edition sold out in three months. Several facsimiles were produced in later years, the most faithful in 1909; this copy includes the features determinative of the proper first: a) title leaf a cancel, b) 'W' in 'William' present on p.41 in the first line of the 4th stanza, and c) horizontal chain lines uniformly spaced at 1" (scant). Seybolt did not have a copy of this regional rarity in his collection of first books, and the first 7 Gables First Books catalogue could muster only a rebound copy. BAL 16525. RUSSO, pp.3-6.

Forlong, J.G.R.Rivers of Life. Or Sources and Streams of the Faiths of Man in all Lands; Showing the Evolution of Faiths from the Rudest Symbols to the Latest Spiritual Developments (Three volume set including separate folding chart) London: Bernard Quaritch/Subscriber's Copy, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Volume one title page shows Quaritch, 1883. Volume two title page states:Â Â "Subscriber's Copy", 1883. The ultra rare subscriber's edition is considered to be the actual first issue so this is technically a mismatched set, but has probably been mismatched since day one since the paper toning and the overall exceptional quality of these volumes match in every other way.Â First Edition. Three Volumes (plus chart). Hardcover. Quarto. The two large text volumes are beautifully bound in half morocco over gilt edged marbled boards (by Bennett, New York). Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. [xli], 565, [vi], 659 pages, with index and errata list at end of each volume. Illustrated with 17 full page plates on card stock (all present), and 339 text drawings.Â 2 colored maps are present (a second century map of the world showing movement of early races and faiths, and a large foldout of Ancient India and adjacent areas showing early tribes, their sacred places, etc.).Â In addition to the text volumes is the very large, and often-missing, color Synchronological Chart of the Religions of the World representing different currents (Faith Streams) which is linen-backed and folded, housed in a separate folder inside a beveled slipcase covered in brown cloth. The chart measures 7.5 feet by 2.25 feet and is in excellent condition. The ?Explanatory Note to Chart of Rivers of Life?, originally issued as a loose sheet (again, often missing)Â has been neatly affixed to the back of one panel of the chart and can be perused easily without it going astray. Volume one has one tiny corner bump to rear board and there is one small closed tear to the large fold-out map of India. Two plates in volume two have light moisture stains to top of plate but are in the margins. Otherwise THIS SET IS IN FINE CONDITION with no markings of any kind. It is a very well preserved set and one is not likely to find a nicer or more attractive copy.Â A scarce title and exceptionally rare in this condition -Â even more so with the large chart included. This is Forlong?s massive work of comparative religion and the natural evolution of existing faiths, with its uninhibited sexual interpretation of religious rites and ceremonies throughout history. Forlong puts forth the idea that all major religions can be traced back to six main streams of worship which go back to the beginning of mankind?s history. The 6 streams are mainly solar and phallic in nature (Mr. Crowley, please pick up a white paging phone).Â Volume one details each stream:Â Tree Worship, Phallic Worship, Serpent Worship, Fire Worship, Sun Worship, and Ancestor Worship. Crowley did include this work in his list of "Books for Serious Study" (Curriculum of the A.A.)Â calling it "an invaluable text-book of old systems of initiation?.Â Volume two continues with chapters on the early faiths of Western Asia (being Chaldea and Assyria), faiths of Western Aborigines in Europe and adjacent countries, and faiths of Eastern Aborigines (Non-Aryan and Semitic).Â The chief object of the accompanying Chart is to show the gradual evolution from rude material and elemental symbolisms to abstract and spiritualized conceptions. This is accomplished by streams of colors, one each for the six forms of worship mentioned above. It is interesting to see how many of the streams converge and travel together at certain periods throughout history, allowing one to detect patterns in relation to forms of worship, locales, and time periods. Along each stream are the names of gods and attributes, as they became prominent, etc. Two chronological columns (beginning in 10,000 B.C.) with text are present on either side of the chart. The left side shows principal characters, cities, and leading religious events (historical and mythical) throughout history. The column on the right shows dates of religious writings, temple constructions, dogmas, languages and other principal matters. The whole thing is like a board game of the gods. Its remarkable in every way.Â The amount of esoteric material that Forlong has presented here is staggering. And the sexual nature of it all goes beyond the work of Payne-Knight, and Jennings. An incredible amount of research went into the work.Â And though much of his research was gathered from his own travels and fieldwork (especially during his lengthy stay in India), he additionally relied on numerous authorities in his research. A long list of works cited (separated by subject) are at the beginning of volume one.

Geoffrey ChaucerThe Poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer London - George Bell, 1883 Book. VERY GOOD INDEED. Hardcover. Six volumes of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetical works. Includes his best known Canterbury Tales. With a memoir and introduction on Chaucer by Sir Harris Nicholas. Complete in six volumes. Published as a part of the Aldine Edition of British Poets series. In a Maclehose of Glasgow binding, with the binder's stamp to the verso of front endpaper. Geoffrey Chaucer is widely regarded as the father of English literature. He is considered to be the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and his work was crucial in legitimizing the literary use of the Middle English vernacular. Condition: In full morocco bindings with gilt stamping to spines. Externally, very smart with small portions of minor rubbing to the raised bands and to the head and tail of spine. A few handling marks to boards. Binder's stamp to the verso of front endpaper, Maclehose. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned with scattered spots throughout. Overall: VERY GOOD INDEED..

John WisdenJohn Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1883 - 1883 Original Paperback Wisden. No Restoration. 1883. Hi, I recently purchased a set of Wisdens and the first 50 of the run were in a suitcase that had not been opened for over 50 years. This lot is an 1883 Original Paperback Wisden. It has the Original Spine Paper without any Restoration. It is in Very Good Condition for the year. The spine paper is excellent, just some wear to the ends and a small amount of darkness to the bottom. The book is very tightly bound, the covers have some marks and age toning , mainly to the front cover in the middle. Internally it is very nice and clean and hasn't been opened for a while. Spotting to page block but not much at all inside the book. No restoration.

KEATS, John.The Poetical Works and other Writings. London: Reeves & Turner,, 1883. Now first brought together including poems and numerous letters not before published edited with notes and appendices by Harry Buxton Forman. In four volumes. 4 volumes, octavo (210 x 131 mm). Finely bound by Maurin in blue half morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, blue cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait of the author to each volume. Spines a little faded, an excellent set. A particularly handsome set of Keats's worksS

Barsukov, I.P.[ALASKAN MISSIONARY] Innokentii, Mitropolit Moskovsky i Kolomensky po Yego Sochineniyam, Pismam i Rasskazam Sovremennikov [i.e. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, His Works, Letters and Stories of Him by His Contemporaries] Moscow: Typ. of the Holy Synod, 1883. viii, 769, 14, xvi, [1] pp. 26,5x18,5 cm. With a lithographed portrait frontispiece and four lithographed plates. Period style quarter morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Period pencil markings and mild foxing of the text, otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition. First fundamental authoritative biography of Saint Innocent of Alaska (Saint Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow, born Ivan Veniaminov, 1797-1879) - a prominent Russian Orthodox missionary and enlightener of Alaska, Â«remarkable Russian clericÂ» (Lada-Mocarski, 111), the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas. The biography was published just four years after his death by Russian historian and bibliographer Ivan Barsukov, and is mentioned in Lada-Mocarski (see below). Barsukov gives a detailed story of St. Innocent's life, work and travels in Russian America and Eastern Siberia, characterizes and quotes numerous reviews on his works, and includes valuable information on the history of the Russian-American Company and Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska. The biography is based on a wide range of original sources, including official correspondence between St. Innocent and Russian church officials (Mikhail, the Bishop of Irkutsk; Holy Synod and the Administration of the Russian-American Company), private correspondence to and from his family and Russian nobility (Admiral V.S. Zavoiko, the head of the Holy Synod count Protasov, countess Sheremetyeva, and others); recollections of his contemporaries (daughter, E.I. Petelina, priest A. Sulotsky); St. Innocent's published works (i.e. The State of the Orthodox Church in Russian America; Notes on the Islands of the District of Unalaska; Notes of Kolosh and Kadiak Languages); other works on Russian America (Tikhmenev Â«Historical Overview of the Formation of the Russian-American Company&hellip;Â», 1861); articles from contemporary periodicals (Irkutskiye Yeparkhialnye Vedomosti (i.e. News of the Irkutsk Diocese, 1879-1882), Dukhovnaya Beseda (i.e. Spiritual Conversation, 1863); Moskovskiye Univ. Izvestiya (i.e. News of Moscow University, 1868), Russian Archive (1881), and others). The Supplements include St. Innocent's letters to Russian writer, traveler and statesman Avraam Norov (1795-1869) written from New Archangel - those were some his first letters as the Bishop of Kamchatka, the Kuril and Aleutian Islands; there is also a speech given by Bishop Amvrosy of Dmitrov during St. Innocent's burial in Moscow, 5 April 1879. The illustrations include two portraits of St. Innocent, a view titled Â«A Pleasant Recollection of a church service performed by Innocent, Bishop of Kamchatka and the Aleutian Islands in the Palovo Channel of the Amur River in August 1858, in the presence of the officers and crew of steamboat 'Vostok', under command of Captain-Lieutenant Baron Schlippenba&#1089;hÂ» (after the original drawing by A. Kondyrev), and two leaves of facsimile of St. Innocent's letters (to his children and baroness Elizaveta Dohler). Â«The author's full name was Ivan Evseevich Popov-Veniaminov. The son of a sexton in a Siberian village, after the usual theological studies and intermediate churchly positions, he was ordained a priest in 1821 and two years later decided to become a missionary and spread the Gospel among the Aleutian natives. His first post was at Unalaska, where he built a church. In the course of some 30 years of devout and enlightened missionary work throughout the Aleutian and Kuril Islands, as well as in Kamchatka, he started schools, vaccinated the natives against smallpox, translated Russian liturgical books into native languages, etc. In 1857 (by then Archbishop of Kamchatka, the Kuriles and the Aleutian Islands), Veniaminov was called to St. Petersburg and in 1868 was mage Metropolitan of Moscow under the name of Innokentii. For a more complete biography of this remarkable man, see the 24-page The Life and Work of Innocent, the Archbishop of Kamchatka (San Francisco, 1897), which is based on a voluminous work (in Russian) by I.P. Barsukov entitled Innokentii, Mitropolit Moskovskii (Moscow, 1883)Â» (Lada-Mocarski, 107). Ivan Veniaminov went to Unalaska as a missionary priest in 1824 and spent there ten years. He Â«transliterated Unangan, the Fox Island dialect, into Cyrillic characters and with the help of Ivan Pankov translated the St. Matthew's Gospel, as well as many prayers and hymns. The work was continued at a later date by Father Ilya Tyzhnov, who produced the first and only printed part of the Holy Scripture in the variant of Aleut spoken on Kodiak IslandÂ». He served in Sitka in 1834-38 where he built a school for Tlingit children and composed textbooks for it. In 1840 he went to St. Petersburg and Moscow where he took monastic vows and was subsequently nominated bishop of Kamchatka, the Kuril and Aleutian Islands. In May 1842 Â«he set off on a tour of his diocese, visiting Unalaska, Atka, Unga, Pribilof, Bering and the Spruce Islands, Kamchatka and OkhotskÂ». In the 1840-1850s he made another three voyages around his diocese, in 1853 he took up permanent residence in Yakutsk; later he travelled across Eastern Siberia and the Far East to Blagoveshchensk, the Amur and Ussuri Rivers, and Kamchatka. On 6 October 1977, by a decision of the patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, acting on the official request from the Holy Synod of the Orthodox church in America, Veniaminov, Bishop Innocent, was numbered among the saintsÂ» (after Howgego, 1800 to 1850, V4). Ivan Platonovich Barsukov was a member of a noted family of Russian historians and bibliographers, known for his works on the history of the Russian church, Eastern Siberia, the Far East, Kamchatka, the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. After the biography of St. Innocent Barsukov published his collected works in 3 vols. (Tvoreniya Innokentiya, Mitropolita Moskovskogo i Kolomenskogo, M., 1886-88) and letters, also in 3 vols. (Pisma Innokentiya, Mitropolita Moskovskogo..., M., 1897-1901); biographies of Count Nikolay Nikolayevich Muravyov- Amursky (M., 1891, 2 vols.), and Dionisy, Bishop of Yakutsk (SPb., 1902).

NASHE, ThomasThe Complete works. Printed for Private Circulation only, 1883-84 - 6 volume set, 10 inches tall. A truly magnificent full morocco binding with gilt raised bands, very fine gilt tooling to the panels and boards, dentelles and all edges. This is the first collected edition of the Works of Nashe, the great English Elizabethan pamphleteer, satirist, novelist, playwright and poet. Printed for the Huth Library in an edition of 50 sets for private circulation only. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

HAYTER, Charles, Lieut.-Col. & Captain Harvey Kelly.Manual of Packing and Loading Drill; Bombay & Calcutta: At the Education Society's Press, Byculla [for] Thacker, Spink & Co.; Higginbotham & Co.,, 1883. and Other Subjects connected with the Transport of Troops applicable to Field Service. Compiled by ? Original red cloth, neatly rebacked, title gilt to the front board. Mounted albumen print as frontispiece and 33 other similar prints, together with 14 lithographic plates. Boards somewhat soiled and showing signs of damp, endpapers a little mottled, some of the mounting leaves of lighter paper-stock browned, but overall the contents are sound, the frontispiece a little faded, but the others still strong with just a little paste-action related fade at the margins, certainly about very good. First and only edition. Rare. OCLC locates the BL copy solely, apparently a copy in the National Library of India, together with an otherwise unrecorded edition of 1886; but no copy traced at auction. A remarkable photographically illustrated handbook for transport officers serving in India at the turn of the century. "In issuing a Manual on Transport packing and loading, in which is also briefly incorporated some of the more important subjects connected with Transport in the field, the endeavours of the compilers have been directed towards demonstrating in the simplest manner possible, how the maximum amount of carrying power may be obtained with the minimum amount of distress to the animal" (Preface). The well-illustrated, concise instructions cover the employment of mules, bullocks, camels, and elephants, and the humane approach suggested in the introduction is followed up with the inclusion in Chapter XI, "Veterinary Treatment in the Field" of "somewhat lengthy details", for which the authors apologise, pleading that "the variety of beasts of burden and their ailments with which the Transport Officer may have to deal renders it impossible to condense them any further without detracting from their utility". The advice "to stop a runaway elephant, blindfold him", however, would seem to be of somewhat limited utility. The photographic images portray the various pack animals under a wide range of loads, attended by their native handlers, and in a few cases with an armed, red-coated sergeant standing by. The lithographic plates show in detail the employment of the various knots, lashings and attachments required in the packing and loading processes. It is unlikely that any two serving officers of the time could muster comparable experience in the field to that of the authors. Lieut.-Col. Hayter "was employed in 1857-59 in Bengal, and served with the Shahabad Field Force under Brigadier Douglas, and accompanied Captain Place with a party of one subedar and 35 sepoys, and by stratagem surprised the rebel post at Maindoorah and captured 26 boats" (Hart's 1885). He served with the Eastern Bhutan Field Force in 1865-6 (Medal with Clasp), and also against the Naga Hill Tribes in 1867. In the Second Afghan war of 1878-80 he served in the Commissariat and Transport, and as Director of Transport at Kabul, "brevet of Lt.-Colonel, Medal, and received the thanks of the Governor General in Council for settling claims arising out of the campaign". He was similarly employed in the Mahsud Waziri Expedition of 1881, and more significantly was Director of Transport for the Indian Contingent in the Egyptian Campaign of 1882, present at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir (mentioned in despatches, CB, Medal with Clasp, 3rd Class of the Medjidie, and Khedive's Star). Capt. Kelly, who is described on the title page as Deputy Assistant Commissary General for Transport in Madras subsequently served with the Burmese Expedition (1887-9) as Assistant Commissary General for Transport; was Brigade Transport Officer in the operations of the 3rd Brigade under Brigadier General Wolseley (MID, brevet of Lt-Colonel, medal with two Clasps); with the Poukhan Expedition in 1889 as Assistant Commissary General under Brigadier General Wolseley (Clasp) ; and in the operations in the Chin Hills and on the North East Frontier of Burma in 1891-2 as Principal Commissariat Officer under Major General Stewart. Authoritative, fascinating, and decidedly uncommon.

FERGUSSON, James.The Parthenon; London: John Murray,, 1883. An Essay on the Mode by which Light was introduced into Greek and Roman Temples. Quarto (282 x 215 mm). Original maroon pebble-grain cloth over bevelled boards, rebacked with the original gilt-lettered spine laid down, titles, vignette, broad decorative border and floral cornerpieces gilt to front board, the border and cornerpieces repeated to rear in blind, top edge rough-trimmed, black coated endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, 4 similar plates, wood-engraved vignette to title, frequent wood-engravings to the text. Interleaved throughout. Printed material pasted to interleaves facing pp. 35, 42 and 82 and to the terminal blank, autograph letter signed from Schliemann pasted to interleaf facing p. 99 (single sheet of blue surface-paper, 225 x 140 mm), inked diagram by DÃ¶rpfeld similarly imposed facing p. 63 (single sheet of blue laid paper, 100 x 170 mm, faint adhesive marking along edge, the image unaffected), and a further diagram by DÃ¶rpfeld, ink and wash, facing p. 89; Fergusson's annotations to text and interleaves. All described fully below. Gift inscription to front free endpaper verso, "To Christopher Pawley from his father Charles H Pawley, Archit. July 3rd 1920, Major VD, designer and originator of the Empire War Memorial". Binding rubbed in places, tips bumped and worn, hinges reinforced, half-title slightly marked, occasional cockling to interleaves with pasted material and a few markings to facing pages, remains a very good copy. First and only edition, the author's personal copy, with James Fergusson's extensive manuscript annotations, an autograph letter signed to Fergusson from controversial and pioneering archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, and two highly significant original diagrams by Schliemann's assistant Wilhelm DÃ¶rpfeld. There are also several mounted engravings and photographic prints, these last reflecting Fergusson's early advocacy of photography in documenting archaeological findings. This copy brings together three of the most important figures in the rediscovery of Greek antiquities in the nineteenth century. James Fergusson (1808-1886) established himself with his work on Indian architecture, and became one of Victorian Britain's leading architectural historians, much admired by Ruskin. He and Schliemann (1822-1890), "often considered to be the discoverer of prehistoric Greece" (Ency. Brit.), were both amateur enthusiasts who funded their investigations through commercial fortunes. Wilhelm DÃ¶rpfeld (1853-1940), a trained architect, joined Schliemann at Troy in 1882, and subsequently assisted him at Tiryns from 1884 to 1885 and on later projects, his expertise proving an important check on his employer's often destructive methods and extravagant conclusions. In this late work Fergusson pays tribute to Schliemann's findings at Mycenae and Orchomenos, which showed that "the [so-called] Pelasgic form of arts and those of the Hellenes who succeeded them ? belong to the same age" (p. 54). Fergusson had in turn helped Schliemann in his excavations of Troy, Mycenae, and Tiryns, and in the dedication to Tiryns (1885) Schliemann described his colleague as "eminent alike for his knowledge of art and for the original genius which he has applied to the solution of some of its most difficult problems" (ODNB): John Murray had expressed reservations about the cost of printing, so Schliemann "sent a sketch of the palace plan to ? James Fergusson, a friend and adviser of John Murray, who from the beginning had responded enthusiastically to the news of the discovery ? He was influential in convincing Murray to take the book on the usual terms" (Traill, Schliemann of Troy, p. 239). On page 63 Fergusson prints a diagram of roof construction from an inscription regarding the Athenian naval arsenal at Philon, found at Piraeus by DÃ¶rpfeld. DÃ¶rpfeld's original ink diagram, sent to Fergusson by Schliemann while The Parthenon was in the press, is annotated with mathematical formulae absent from the printed reproduction. Fergusson describes the significance of the discovery, which "accounts for the the interval between the mutules of the Parthenon which was otherwise inexplicable", and shows also that a layer of clay would have been applied between the roof planks and tiles, which explains the thickness of the upper member of the Parthenon cornice. DÃ¶rpfeld's exacavations at Piraeus notably remain the sole proof for the size of Athenian triremes. On page 89 Fergusson discusses the conversion of the Theseion at Athens into a church as demonstrated by a sketch by DÃ¶rpfeld, the original mounted opposite, and shows how early Christians cut away "the three upper courses of the walls ? to allow of a vault being thrown across the nave, in place of the wooden roof that originally existed", and thus obliterated evidence for how light was originally introduced. Schliemann's letter dated Athens, 25 January 1883, thanks Fergusson for sending two drawings of the Temple of Eleusis, probably the originals of the wood-engravings in Fergusson's printed text, demonstrating that Eleusis was copied from an Egyptian design. Schliemann writes that he has forwarded them to DÃ¶rpfeld in Berlin, "who cannot find words to express his amazement at your ingenuity to make sketches of things unseen and to hit exactly the right theory. He is going to publish his lectures on the Scenotheke of Philon in the Annals of the German School here and promises you a copy of it". Schliemann also politely turns down Fergusson's invitation to DÃ¶rpfeld to visit England, owing to his approaching marriage (he married Anne Adler, daughter of his professor, in February). On the day he wrote the letter Schliemann held a grand ball at Iliou Melathron, his Athens mansion, three days before setting off to survey Thermopylae (see Traill, p. 227). Fergusson's lengthy annotations to two interleaves seem to be draft paragraphs for an intended second edition. To the leaf facing pages 104-5, which discuss inter the Parthenon's ratios, he adds that "it provided in its pediments - in triglyphs and in friezes - sculptures which were suddenly developed from archaic forms to read a degree of perfection that was never approached before & have never been equalled since" and argues that its cella was "evidently originally adorned with painting". On the leaf facing page 109 Fergusson describes how the Parthenon evinces the pagan emphasis on exterior over interior elaboration, the opposite of Christian architecture. On pages 49-50 he has scored about several paragraphs and individual, evidently in revision of the theory that the Parthenon was originally a laconicum for the Baths of Agrippa, while on page 98 he he has added a scale to two diagrams of Karnak (which form part of his evidence for his theory regarding Eleusis, above). Fergusson has additionally grangerised this copy with a proof pull of the wood-engraving of the pillar of Ephesus (facing p. 35), photographic prints of the Temple of Heliopolis (p. 42) and the Temple of Nepture at Paestum (p. 82), and a lithographed speculative view of the Parthenon cella (terminal blank).

CARROLL, LewisRhyme? and reason? London: Macmillan and Co., 1883. [12], 214pp, [2]. With half-title. Frontispiece and 64 illustrations in the text by Arthur B. Frost, and nine by Henry Holiday. Original publisher's green, gilt-tooled cloth. A trifle rubbed to joints and spine, very minor spots of soiling. With the bookplate to FEP of Caryl Liddell Hargreaves. A first trade edition, with remarkable provenance, of the collected verse of children's author Lewis Carroll; including the previously printed 'Phantasmagoria' and 'The Hunting of the Snark', and the first appearance of the poems 'Echoes', 'A Game of Fives', and 'Fame's Penny-Trumpet'. Caryl Liddell Hargreaves, third son of Alice Liddell - the inspiration for the eponymous protagonist of the Wonderland tales. . First trade edition. 8vo.